לָאטlâʼṭ
לָאט: see לוּט (Judges 4:21)
Pronunciation: lawt · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3814
Meanings
לָּט: secrecy, mystery, always with בְּ
1. = secretly (1 Samuel 18:22; 1 Samuel 24:5; Ruth 3:7)
2. = enchantments (Exodus 7:22; Exodus 8:3; Exodus 8:14)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 7:11 Then Pharaoh called in his own wise men and sorcerers, and these Egyptian magicians did the same thing with their magic.
- Judges 4:21 But when Sisera fell asleep from exhaustion, Jael quietly crept up to him with a hammer and tent peg in her hand. Then she drove the tent peg through his temple and into the ground, and so he died.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).